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mm in w Telephone Mil s Mum PRICE FIVE CENTS Mac Quashes Jap Imperial Headquarters By Tha Aatoclated Praia i Japan abolished her Impurlul headquarters, fountalnhcud of her militarism, under General MucArthur'i orders today nnd be gun lie Jul) o( rounding up hur own wur criminals on Gen, Hldekl l'ojo: No. 1 on tho "wanted" lint, Hhowcd definite Improvement (rum hlii suicide attempt two duya oko, The elKlill) army grunted the Junanoso government request tltut It bo permitted tu tuko into custody .the wur leaders listed bv General MncArthur (or uosslblo war criminal trials, but lncll- Ira The v By FRANK JENKINS GERMANY As to wlwit hop pan to Cermmiy, practically everybody agrees thut (his winter will tell the tnle. Klther thcro will bo food nnd fuel enough to go around, If spread thin, in which event It may be possible lo atari building a NEW Cormany next spring, Or i there will bo cold and hunger greater than people can bear In which event ANY THING can happen, i TN trying to arrive at en In- telllgent opinion or your own, you are mUled constantly by an abysmal contrast tho contrast between tho smaller towns and the country and the big in dustrial cities. In outward ap pearance they era as far apart at the Poles. Tha small (owns and the farm ing countryside are almost uiv scarred. Except ot somo stra- togle crossroad where tho Ger mans maae a sianu, nirni wri rn Germany looks like a land unscathed bv war In a century. Vou rldo through It and look at It and try lo evaluate It and in a little whito you find yourself thinking that this country Is bursting with food and thut fears of hunger this winter are ground less. THEN you enter big In dustrial city. lis strategic areas lis fnclorlcs, Its down town business area. Its railroads and Its BRIDGES will be smashed and useless. ' ' Oddly enough, factory chim neys escaped tho bombing amni; Ingly. Few of them seem to have been knocked down. They stand out on the skyline like tent poles after the canvas has come down. Practically NONE of them are smoking. They aland thoro Idle and dead, unmlstnkeablo sign posts of an economy that Is ot standstill. THEY start you to thinking. , Your thoughts run something like this: Many, perhaps most, IX these now-dead factories were producing war goods, and so their product will not be rn.ls.icd In tho economy of today, for pcoplo can't cat guns and tanks and planes and ammunition. BUT, you suddenly remember, : (Continued on Pnge Two) : Blaze Blackens 90 Acres Of Land A 00-acro grass and brush (Ire was brought under control today near Barclay Springs on tho Klamath Indian reservation after It was believed to havo been started Wednesday after noon by a cureless smoker. Tho blaze, which Is Just north of the one which burned over a large territory recently, was being fought today by crows from Klnmnth Agency and from tho forest service at Scott creek. It was started near the high way and it was thought that a clguretlo had been thrown from a car to start tho tiro. No Driving Experience. Youth Steals, Wrecks Car ' A 16-ycar-old boy, who had absolutely no driving : experi ence, stulo and completely wrecked a car belonging lo Ros coo McDannald roulo 3, Kono, Inst night about 10:45 o'clock. The youth miraculously oscaped vrith minor cuts and bruises after crushing Into a tolcuhono polo at tho Intersection of Wash-, Durn wny ana tno Micnuna road. , This boy and another youth had uttondod a movlo at tho Towor theatre nnd upon leaving the theatre tho two boys separ ated, tho ono boy going homo, Tho other lnd apparently decid ed to tnke a rldo. although he hud novor operated a car by him self before Ho got into the nulnmobllc, which was parked in front of the theatre on S. 0th, coiea mere nun Doner oo acuon within two days or tho Amcrl- cans would step in agum, Tojo's Condition At an Amorlcun hospital, Tojo was reported as in "quite satis factory" condition and talked with correspondents. In an Interview, Prince Fuml- maro Konoya, former premier and now vice president under i'rince mgashi-Kuni, cnurgcu Japanese militarists with giving tho government of Japan a rep ututlon ai a Dor. Nlmlti Advisaa Without having heard Kon eye's tale about Juputi's reputa tion for lacking veracTly, Ad miral Nimilz on Guam advised Americans that the Japanese wero telling them what America wanted to hear and their stories should be taken with "a grain of salt," Referring particularly to Jap anese talk about alrpowcr win ning tho war, ho said: "I don't think our own people should be thrown off base by accepting that. Alrpowcr was tha . spear head and the sharp edge of the cutting knife but tha rest of the knife was there, too, and scopower brought It there." Industrialists Speak In another interview in Tok yo, a group of leading indus trialists charged Japanese mili tarists with refusing to end the war even after the country (Continued on Page Two) j,! LACK DF STOP Si! MERRILL Malicious de struction of a stop sign at the Junction of the Lava Beds road and highway 30 less than one mile east of Merrill was blamed by state police for a two-car smushup at the intersection last night at 0:30 o clock in which two men were injured, one ser iously. , Dr. C. Martin Carlson, 61, of Ketchikan. Alaska, Is in Hillside hospital with serious head injur ies as mo result ot me collision. A car driven by Maurice O' Callaghan of Tulelake wns pro cccdlng toward Klamath Falls on highway 39 when the auto mobile operated by Carlson came from tho Lava Beds road onto tho highway without stop ping, rue two cars collided and both were badly damaged, ac cording to a report by state po lice. Carlson was taken to the hos (Continucd on Poge Two) Football Ducats On Sale Friday Reserved' seat season tickets for tho 1945 Pelican grid season will go on sale Friday, September 14, at 8:30 a, m, at" tho chamber of com merce, 323 Main. Tho prlco of a ticket is $5. , Sales will bo limited to six ducats per person at tho opening sale tomorrow morn ing, There arc fivo games to bo played on the homo slate at Modoc field this season. and drove to tho Lakcvlew Junc tion. '. Ho then turned around and drove back' to tho Midland road and turned left toward tho Great Northern roundhouse where he struck loose gravel, lost control of tho automobile, and smashed hend-on . Into a telephone polo, totally demolishing the car, Law enforcement officers and a physician woro colled to tho scene nnd tho boy , was given first aid and turned over to Ju venile authorities. Ho told of ficers ho was on his wny to Dunsmuir, Calif,, but could give no reason (or going thoro. The youth has no previous rec ord, authorities said. A com plaint was signed by McDannald this morning, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTElv.. i 13, 1945 f I ' Strtat and drlvas at tha Marina Barracks hara bean named for spots In the Pacific where lo cal veteran! have made marine corps history and sign potts were completed latt week. Four ma rines are shown erecting a aign in front of the PX at Iwo Jlme and Kwajalein. Moat marine bases uae a similar system of street naming but the names usually commemorate earlier leatherneck ex ploits. But since Klamath Falls Is strictly a World War II bate,, appropriate World War II names were selected. . Official U, S. marine corps photo. OCTOBER 1 MAY BE ERATI WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (P) Shoe rationing may end October X- ; - '" :i .-; It will If top officials,, of the war ' production board follow recommendations of the agency's leather bureau. It's the Job of thut bureau to know the shoo situation thoroughly, A decision will be made iri the noxt week or so, after con ference between , WTB Chair man J. A. Krug and OPA Ad ministrator Chester Bowles. OPA shoe officials are not oxpected to voice any strenuous objections to the WPB proposal, although October 15 and No vember 1 have been mentioned more frequently within OPA as likely dates for ending the pro gram. There Is not complete agree ment in WPB on the October 1 date. The agency's office of civilian requirements reported ly wants to mnke sure before committing Itself that stocks and the production outlook are ade quate to permit unrestricted buying. i ; Both OPA and WPB have In dlcatcd that when shoe output iionunuoq on rage Two) See Atomic Gen, Leslie R. Grovet (right) University of California, who cooperated on atomic bomb develop ment, get a first hand look at the tho tott bomb waa exploded near Alamogordo, N. M, (AP wire photo); ; "" ' Pacific Nostalgia mv&Mi BUI Dieter Blasted Steel Mill In Famous Toky o Raid TULELAKE. Calif., Sept, 13 Sgt. Bill Dieter of Tulelake drop ped a bomb directly on a Tokyo steel mill before he died on the Doollttle raid on Japan early in That -and othcr-def inite-irKt formation about Sgt. Dieter's death has been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Dieter of Tulelake, from Bill's uncle, Capt. Earl L. Dieter, U. S. army air corps chaplain. Capt. Dieter spent on hour at waiter need nosniwi in Washing ton, D. 'C. with Capt. Chase Nielsen and Capt. Robert H. Hite, Doollttle fliers, who gave him the firsthand story of the crash that killed the Tulelake hero Direct Hit The crew of Dieter's bomber flew directly over Tokyo. Diet er, a bombardier, dropped a bomb squarely on the steel mill, and the plane then flew on toward China. At 8:30 p. m. Lt. Dean E. Hall mark, the pilot, noticed the gas was dangerously low and gave the crash order, Bill was in the nose of the plane, - Altitude was so low that they crashed before any could bail out. the nose of the plane i was splintered , and Bill was swept into the sea. He climbed Bomb Results and Dr. J. R, Oppenheimer of the baae of the tower from which ? ' Septtmbtr 13, 1945 Max. (Sept, 12) S3 Min , 51 Precipitation lift 24 houri 00 Straam yaar to data 13.30 Normal 12.64 Lait yaar 10,62 Forecaiti Claar Friday. 1 oh toD 'of the plane and said "I m hurt all over. The crew adjusted life belts, and started swimming. . Lieutenant Hall mark was helping Corporal Don old FUtmi.ir ice. of Lincoln,' Ne- briifKe;' also injured-'and- some other' member -at the crew was helping Bill. , Nellsen swam 'to shore, col (Continued on Page Two) . W. BROADCASTS NEW YORK, Sept. 13 m The strike of about 500 union radio technicians in 350 stations of the National and American broadcasting companies contin ued today witn Dotn neiworKS on the air. their controls manned by supervisory personnel not connected with the union. A. T.. Powley, president of the Nittional Association of Broad casting Engineers and Techni cians, an independent union, said the men would remain away from their jobs until contract negotiations were resumed. NBC To Negotiate The: National Broadcasting company, in a statement, said it was willing to resume negotia tions "the minute the men re turned to work, and -otherwise are ready to submit to arbitra tion" Negotiations for a contract to replace one which expired June, 1944, collapsed' yesterday. At 5:30 D. m.. the union sent a 30- minute strike notice to the com- (Continued on Page Two) PFC Miller Freed From Japs PFC Robert Miller, USMC, has been liberated from a Japa nese prison camp in Osaka, Japan, according to a telegram received Wednesday by Robert L. Miller of this city. The telegram came Just one day after the boy's mother had oeen Duricd. Mrs. Miner, in ill health for some time, had held out hope that she might live to hear that her boy was safe, but at the time of her death Monday, she did not know that her son had been liberated. PFC Miller was taken or son- or on Corregldor when it fell and the last word that the family had had was in June when It was reported that he was heard on a shortwave broadcast from Japan, , EAST COAST ARRIVALS By The Aaaoclated Press ' Angelo L. Sottana, ' PFC, Weed. Arrived on SS Argcn tlna due in New York Sep tember 10 . Robert T. Dalilell, SSgt Dunsmuir. Arrived on SS Argentina due in New York September 10. ' George R. Gassaway, TS, Yreka, . Arrived on Kenmore due at San Francisco Septem ber IX., .... Numbar 10617 ARMY RELEASES BADLY II T Navy Asks Secrecy On Pearl Harbor Code . By MAX HALL WASHINGTON. Sept. 13 Iff) The army acknowledged today that is backlog of men eligible for release, but still in uniform, was badly jammed up. But Mat. Gen. S. G. Henry. assistant chief of staff, told sen ators tnis backlog , will be cleaned up within 40 days. ine general, testifying before the senate military committee which wants to know why men are not being discharged faster. saia: The Jam-UD occurred in nart because the air forces believ ing full airoower was needed against Japan released no men Detween the day Germany quit and the day Japan quit. nenry relerred to the men In the backlog as being in a "DiDe- line." '"They are backed up in it. It is bad. There is no aues- tion about, it." , -. .Separation Centers New, separation centers being put into operation Henry said, will speed up the discharges. He said they'll be.able to dis charge 800,000 men "a month by December 1. He didn't say that many would be getting out of service montniy by that date. But previously the army was understood to have said 800.000 would be getting out by Decem- oer i. - v - J " " The navy asked " congress again- please n o t to ' reveal part of the Pearl Harbor story, the part about the Japanese coae. Mixed Feelings : - Congress listened to the armv and navy with mixed feelings. That was the situation on Cap itol Hill today, along with con gressional news about surplus property. . . standard time. . , government corporations. . . air ports. . . . unemolovment Da v. High army officers did some more explaining before the sen ate military committee on their plans for faster discharges. Before the hearing opened Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D Colo.) said the army had given him the 800,000-a-month fore cast, and he said it sounded good to him. Johnson said he also was told there will be 71 army separation (Continued on Page Two) . N. Y. Welcomes Corregidor Hero NEW YORK, Sept.: 13 (IP) Cheering millions gave . Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright today one of the greatest welcomes in New York City's history a thunderbig ovation that over whelmed him to the point of dis belief. Police Inspector John J. O'Connell estimated 6,000,000 persons acclaimed the 62-year- old hero of Corregidor on a tri umphal 32-mile motor trip through flag bedecked streets from La Guardia field, where he was greeted witn a 17-gun salute. The largest storm of paper the famed financial district ever has seen cascaded down upon- the happy and smiling though plainly surprised four star gen eral as he rode up lower Broad way to city hall to receive hon orary citizenship of New York. Famous "Send Us More Japs' Speech Denied By Marine TOKYO, Sept. 13 (ff) Lt. Col James P. Devereux denies that he ever sent the famous radio message "Send us more Japs" as his heroic little marine garrison was being overwhelmed on Wake island in December, 1941. Devereux was quoted by members of an air evacuation group who visited his prison camp in the mountains of north ern Hokkaido island Tuesday, Commands Camp Now In command of the camp, Devereux told them, "the first thing I'd like to get on the rec ord is that we did not send out such a radio message. "We had all and more Japs than we could handle right then, There were just too many ot them for us to hold . off any longer." Sgt. Al Martin of Roanoke, Va., and Topeka, Kans., who was In the rescue party, said Dovcreux did tell them he had to glvo tho "cease fire'1 order three times before his weary and out CIO Agrees To Return To Job On WCLC Terms The west coost lumber commission todoy wired the dis putants in the local lumber strike requesting that unionist ond companies resume work under same terms as existed be- ' fore the strike developed. CIO unionists, in meeting ot noon, voted to adopt this program on their part and so notified the componies by special mail delivery this afternoon. This step indicated a move toward possible settlement of a strike that has tied up four mills for five weeks,' ond fol lowed an incident ot the Weyerhaeuser picket line this morn ing in which violence threatened as AFL machinists went through the CIO picket line. I he lumber commission, which is a subsidiary of th WLB, requested all parties to proceed by "negotiation, con ciliation or other means exclusive of economic force to settle their existing grievances and disputes between themselves," ond are willing to consign a case. - Here is the text of the tele gram sent to companies and the union: , "The west coatt lumber commission in executive na tion at Washington, D, C, has directed me to tend the fol lowing communication to you: The wett coatt lumber com mitsion is advised that since early latt month the employee of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company. Ketterton Lumber corporation, Ewauna Box company. Big Laket Box com pany, Bly Logging company and Chiloquin Lumber com pany, and Pelican Bay Lum ber company, -said employes being membert of the IWA CIO, have been on ttrike over an iatue involving the union ' tecurity claute of the col lective bargaining contracts of the partiet and that terse of the companies involved have given notice of termin ation of their contract!. ThU dispute hat not been certified , to the " national war labor ' board nor preferred -to - the west coast lumber commis sion.'. "However., the committion directs the attention of all partial to the following facts' "1. The u n 1 o n .tecurity claute of many or all of , these- contracts are those which were settled by action of the wett coatt lumber com mittion and the national war 'labor board and "were inclnd-:- ed in ; the .contracts - of ' the parties pursuant to a directive order in a war labor board dispute case. ' "2. These directive orders have not been revoked nor modified and are still in full force and effect. ' "3 In his statement : of August 16, 1945, the presi dent of the United States re ferring to the present interim ' period between the end of the war and the forthcoming industry-labor conference taid: ' 'I thall expect both industry and labor in that period to continue to comply voluntar ily at they have in the past with the directive orders of the board." 4- The commission it fur ther advised thai the partiet have not fully utilized the ex- ' isting machinery provided by their contracts for the settle ment of grievance! and dis putes. 5. The U. S. conciliation ser . vice it prepared to attign to the disputes existing between (Continued on Page Two) Yanks Bled Mercilessly For Jap Transfusions YOKOHAMA, Sept. 13 (A) A navy physician, fighting to save the lives of enfeebled form er prisoners of war, said today he had been told that Japanese doctors deliberately bled Amer ican prisoners to death to obtain blood for transfusions for Jap anese. "I was told this by one of my patients, a medical corps cap tain who was taken on Cor regidor," said Capt. Stanton Al lison, New York, medical di rector aboard the hospital ship Benevolence. numbered marines would quit the hopeless struggle. DevereBx said he still regard ed himself as a major, since he had not been officially notified of his promotion to lieutenant colonel- He insisted on remain ing in the camp until all the prisoners could be removed, a process expected to be complet ed by tomorrow. - Officers Wait In turn, some of his staff offi cers who havo been taken out have refused to start for nome until Devereux joins them. Martin, who used to be city ed itor of the Topeka Capital, said the rescue team landed at an air striD 60 miles from the Urashi- nai camp and drove the remain der of the distance, uney arrived at 1 a. m., but the whole camp was ud to meet them and the 50 weakest prisoners were taken out immediately, Devereux himself is thin and gray but otherwise , appears healthy, Martin said. government conciliator to the 1 5 LONDON, Sept. 13 (ff) U. S. representatives in eastern and , southeastern Europe were gath ering in London today for urgent consultations with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes on num erous touchy Balkan situations now before the Big Five council of foreign ministers. " Byrnes ' saw King Peter of Yugoslavia at Claridges hotel on the 'express invitation of the young exiled monarch. : Later the secretary of state consulted with the Greek regent, Arch bishop Damaskinos, at the Amer ican' embassy. Another Byrnes conference was with Herbert Evatt, Australian foreign minister..- . Diplomatic quarters consid--': (Continued on Page Two) ,. COBGESHftLL ASKS Ei Captain Lowell T. CoggeshaU,, ranking medical, officer of the Marine Barracks since its incep tion, today appealed to Klamath people to help create a hand some, landscaped boulevard be tween the city and the big mlli- tary installation in the north east hills. The road is paved, but there is need for much road side improvement. -Dr. CoggeshaU made his ap peal, to the Kiwanis club in a Thursday noon address, suggest ing that service club take over the project.- He emphasized that an attractive access road to the Marine Barracks might well have a bearing on the future of the installation and its value to the community. The speaker said that the Old Fort road, the road to the Bar racks, is "ramshackle" in some of its portions, and creates an unfavorable impression on all (Continued on Page Two) "The captain said that Jap anese at Tokyo's Shinagawa hos pital made a fairly common prac tice of bleeding Americans mercilessly for transfusions for wounded Japanese. In some cases they bled the men directly, to death, and in others so weak ened them that they died of other causes. "The captain said he would personally like to shoot one par ticularly brutal Japanese doctor. The caDtain said he had treated a B-29 flier for a simple leg frac ture. Then the Japanese doctor insisted in making a deep in cision to wire the bone, although that should be done only for a compound fracture when the flesh is mangled.. The boy died of infection." ' i The army captain accompan ied Allison on a visit to Shin agawa. They found the hospital camp ringed with antiaircraft guns in violation of the Geneva convention. , BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE It. H. E. Boston 3 9 2 Pittsburgh 4 4 2 Singleton, Logan (8) and Masi; Gerheauser and Salkcld. AMERICAN R H E Detroit 2 9 1 Philadelphia 3 7 0 Tobin and Swift; Flores, Knerr (9) and Rosar. :-. ' R H B St. Louis 2 9 1 Boston 15 i 2 Potter and Mancuso; V. John son and Pytlak, , R H E Chicago 7, 8 0 New York 0 7 0 i Dietrich, Johnson (10) and Tresh; Zuber and Robinson, I II 1 HI BALKAN
